Tokyo is preparing to revoke the operating license of JCO Co., the uranium plant operator, in an unprecedented sanction following the country's worst nuclear disaster, a safety official said

In an effort to enhance its share of the vast and lucrative Asian cigarette market, British American Tobacco PLC relied on a broad smuggling network in that region, internal company documents

Under pressure from Congress to explain lapses in oversight of gene therapy, federal health officials have acknowledged that they could not be certain whether experiments had hastened, or ever

The European Parliament approved rules on Thursday that would force automakers to bear the full cost of recycling old cars in the 15-nation European Union. The move takes one step closer to adoption

With tuberculosis rampant in much of the developing world and immigration from those countries at a record high, public health officials in the United States are calling for large-scale tuberculosis

A cocktail of medications introduced four years ago has immensely increased the longevity of people with the AIDS virus, according to research to be published in the latest issue of The

The Ukrainian government decided Wednesday to close down the Chernonyl nuclear power plant, site of the world's worst nuclear accident, by the end of this year, as Western countries have long

In its most clear-cut acknowledgment that there is evidence linking Agent Orange to illness among Vietnam veterans, the U.S. Air Force has said in a new report that there is "particularly strong

A warning : Taking high doses of vitamin C while undergoing traditional cancer therapy many interfere with radiation or chemotherapy treatments and, in a perverse way, possibly protect the very

Officials ordered the evacuation of 10,000 people Wednesday from towns at the foot of a volcano threatening to erupt. Hundreds had already abandoned homes near the snow-covered Mount Usu on Hokkaido